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Keropok lekor and cendol pulut in Kuantan

Now what says East Coast better than keropok lekor and cendol pulut, the mainstays of traditional food when you think about Kuantan? :)

I just came back from a weekend there and tasted some of the best keropok lekor I’ve had. Kuantan faces the sea and there is seafood in abundance. This makes fish and the likes very cheap.

Keropok lekor is made with fish and sago before being stuffed into a casing – it’s like a fish sausage of sorts. The keropok lekor is then sliced and deep fried. There are two version that we had but the definitive Kuantan keropok lekor seems to be the chewy type as opposed to the crispier Terengganu keropok lekor.

This cup of keropok lekor sliced into bite sized pieces just cost us RM 1.

It’s eaten with a type of chilli sauce that’s black in color and sweet in taste. The chilli sauce is homemade – that’s the trick that makes it taste so good. The stalls in Kuantan all have their different recipes for the chilli sauce. This particular keropok lekor is chewy and tastes like a sausage made with fish.

There’s also another version of keropok lekor which goes for RM 1 for 8 pieces.

This is the crunchy type and is the more traditional version. It’s also really good and you can really taste the fish in these crackers – it’s almost made entirely out of fish!

However, the best thing that I’ve had the pleasure of introducing to my taste buds in Kuantan is cendol pulut. We have cendol pulut over here, but most of them consists of a meager piece of pulut placed into cendol. The one we had in Kuantan has HALF of the cup filled with pulut.

It’s very filling and it tastes awesome – the gula melaka (palm sugar) used in the cendol basically seeps though the pulut (a type of glutenous rice) and the sheer quantity of it makes it an authentic Kuantan style cendol pulut. I think people eat it to get full – it’s like a meal in itself. -_-

Yeah, it’s like most places sell keropok lekor and it’s all really good. I like the chilli sauce and the fish filled keropok lekor. I haven’t seen good ones over here but will check out the KL Sentral one and see if it’s similar.

oh-my-freaking-god… i’m frm kuantan and i didn’t know they serve keropok in a plastic cup that way…. where exactly was that stall? any street or landmark nearby? can’t tell from the photo that u posted…

anyway, n kuantan, the open secret is ‘keropok sago’ at tanjung lumpur…. and i heard there’s ‘keropok bawang’ too (which the last i heard, the stall no longer operating, but perhaps ask around?). both should be eaten at the stall and NOT to be ta pau back…
there’s also Zaman Nasi Lemak (again, ask around, coz they have been moving their stall around in Ktn)
and there’s cendol ‘on the road towards teluk chempedak’.. pretty famous, but standard’s dropped…. but ppl still visit to gather and meet up.
and do try nasi dagang in kuantan…. it’s different from nasi dagang in trengganu/ kelantan….

and there’s a few cze char places around, where you can get good and cheap food… just ask around :)

and and…. do ask around if these are available…. think they are relatively unknown in other parts of msia, and getting rare in kuantan as well:
– samosa ikan (http://aziancollections.blogspot.com/2010/08/samosa-ikan.html)
– pisang goreng madu (behind Pantai Selamat… pretty famous stall, the pisang goreng is fried with honey and sesame seed….heavenly)